Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...function of film studies on a university level, says Petric, is to introduce the student to cinematic artists whom the popular moviegoers ignore: experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Bruce Bailey, or Hollis Frampton, or foreign artists such as Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean-Luc Godard...
...surprised that students were so unintelligent not to attend," he says, later. "They didn't think about the fact that on an emotional level the last lecture of a five-year program would be interesting, that I might express something unintentional, something related to my feelings about life...
...elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says it with evident satisfaction, almost gleefully. He has made this criticism of Harvard theater before, and says of the institution, "Harvard does not accept art on an equal level with science--which is disgraceful...
...useful to cite and examine specific films. When I venture to say that Lina Wertmueller's Seven Beauties is among my favorite films, he characterizes her as "an interesting but unimportant filmmaker, a kind of Jacqueline Susanne of the cinema" who "entertains bourgeoise intellectuals on a slightly higher level than junk. In Seven Beauties the cinematic structure and forms that she chose don't correspond to the narrative and ideological substance. That content is superficially conceived she treated the dramatic concept without artistic depth." He then points out that we have reached an impasse--the only way to resolve...
...Establishment of the lowest level of wages at a level sufficient high to provide a generally acceptable adequate living wage...